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How to Successfully Evaluate IT Project Risk

Information Week

Every new project is a gamble. Here's how to improve your odds of success.

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Microsoft Races To Reassure Anxious Tech Execs In Europe

Forrester IT

Increasing geopolitical volatility has characterized the last three years in Europe, reaching new heights, with ongoing disputes on US tariffs and possible EU retaliation measures hitting US big tech including hyperscalers. European technology leaders worry about the potential consequences of these actions, from higher costs, to service availability, and other disruptive consequences.

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How to choose the right cybersecurity certificate for your IT career

IT Toolbox

Whether you’re a seasoned IT pro or relatively new to the field, you may have picked up on an interesting dilemma: almost everyone agrees cybersecurity skills are essential, but many IT professi.

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6 trends that will shape the future of the cloud: Gartner

Network World

Cloud technologies have evolved from enablers to business disruptors, according to Gartner, which forecasted six key trends organizations will consider, including AI-driven demand, multicloud complexities, digital sovereignty and sustainability. These trends are accelerating the shift in the way the cloud is moving from being a technology enabler to a business disruptor and a necessity for most organizations.

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How AI Is Transforming IT in 2025: A Playbook for Smarter IT Ops

IT teams are under pressure to do more with less. AI isn’t just hype—it’s already helping lean IT teams cut support volume by up to 60%, reduce cloud waste, and eliminate risk from their stack. In this executive playbook, you'll learn how mid-sized companies are deploying AI to automate tier-1 tickets, predict outages, optimize SaaS spend, and secure infrastructure without hiring a bigger team.

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Are Engineers Prepared for the Emerging Agentic AI Software Development World?

Social, Agile and Transformation

Agentic AI software development is revolutionizing low-code and no-code platform capabilities. Reports indicate a significant rise in AI-assisted coding among developers. As AI agents become more autonomous, traditional coding may decline, posing questions about the future roles of software engineers and enhancing business capabilities. The post Are Engineers Prepared for the Emerging Agentic AI Software Development World?

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Microsoft Lays Off 6,000, Including Director of AI

Information Week

Gabriela de Queiroz, Microsofts former director of AI, took to social media to announce she was laid off along with several thousand employees.

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HPE ‘morphs’ private cloud portfolio with improved virtualization, storage and data protection

Network World

HPE acquired Morpheus Data in August of last year in a bid to bolster multicloud management.Nine months later, that acquisition has spawned new capabilities as part of the integrated HPE Morpheus software portfolio, aimed at alleviating the challenges of managing hybrid environments. Enterprises are under tremendous pressure from all sides with cloud sprawl, technical debt and astronomical virtualization costs all hindering their ability to invest in and adopt AI, said Cheri Williams, senior vic

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Noodlophile Malware Distributed Through Bogus AI Video Generators: Who Are the Targets?

Tech Republic Security

By downloading what they believe is an AI-generated video, victims have installed malware that can steal their data or offer attackers remote access to infected devices.

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The Fastest Way for Teams to Acquire AI Skills

Information Week

AI is rapidly advancing and evolving. Here's how to keep your teams on top of the latest skill trends.

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4 goals to target when building AI skills

CIO Business Intelligence

Having discovered the frightening costs of hiring AI experts from outside the organization, some CIOs have developed ways of building skills in house not just within the IT department, but across the enterprise. Many of the early movers targeted four distinct methods that should now be considered for AI training programs in any organization. Increase office productivity Construction services company Arco set up its first AI training to help people use Microsoft Copilot to transcribe meetings, c

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Tariffs on the Table: How to Brief the Board and C‑Suite With Confidence

“What should we do about the tariffs?” There’s no straightforward answer — every leader has a different expectation. CFOs want numbers. COOs want action. CEOs want strategy. And supply chain and procurement leaders need to be ready with the right response — fast. That’s why GEP has created a simple three-part framework that will help CPOs and CSCOs brief the board and C-suite with clarity and confidence.

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Shell’s immersive cooling liquids the first to receive official certification from Intel

Network World

Air-cooling methods for processors and servers handling intense high-performance computing (HPC) and AI workloads have proven to be woefully inadequate, driving up energy use and subsequent costs. Alternative methods have emerged, such as liquid immersion cooling , which uses fluid instead of air to keep electronics from overheating, however, as of yet, there hasnt been a standard to prove the reliability and deployability of available immersion solutions.

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The Future Is Now With AIOps: Transforming IT Operations In Volatile Times

Forrester IT

AIOps is changing the game for IT teamshelping them make smarter decisions, bounce back faster from issues, and keep customers happy. Find out how businesses are using it to stay ahead in todays fast-moving world.

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How Human-Machine Partnerships Are Evolving in 2025

Information Week

Artificial intelligence continues to become more sophisticated, and as it does, the human-machine partnership evolves. Chief information officers are facing a constant change management issue for 2025 and beyond.

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CEOs’ top priorities for IT leaders today

CIO Business Intelligence

From growing the business to weathering economic uncertainties to remaking enterprise operations, CEOs today rely on their CIOs to help solve the top business challenges they face as chief executives. That essential remit includes improving the enterprises ability to engage customers, collaborating with line-of-business executives to deliver innovative solutions, and safeguarding the organization against a wide variety of risks.

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From Curiosity to Competitive Edge: How Mid-Market CEOs Are Using AI to Scale Smarter

Speaker: Lee Andrews, Founder at LJA New Media & Tony Karrer, Founder and CTO at Aggregage

This session will walk you through how one CEO used generative AI, workflow automation, and sales personalization to transform an entire security company—then built the Zero to Strategy framework that other mid-market leaders are now using to unlock 3.5x ROI. As a business executive, you’ll learn how to assess AI opportunities in your business, drive adoption across teams, and overcome internal resource constraints—without hiring a single data scientist.

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Riverbed bolsters network acceleration for AI’s performance bottlenecks

Network World

Riverbed this week introduced updates to its SteelHead hardware and software products that the network performance and observability vendor says will help enterprises keep pace with the complex data flows that challenge artificial intelligence initiatives, providing them with an efficient way to manage the data requirements of AI infrastructure. Riverbeds SteelHead products, powered by the vendors RiOS 10 acceleration software, will help enterprises speed the movement of data across connected cl

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Five Ways To Engage The B2B Buying Network With Messaging

Forrester IT

Your B2B buyers network is driving organizations to reimagine their messaging. Gone are the days when targeting a single decision-maker with a one-size-fits-all message would suffice. Even the days of building messaging for the buying group alone are now numbered.

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How CIOs Can Prepare Their Successors

Information Week

Guiding future CIOs to eventually take the reins has evolved with the increasing depth of technology, says Michael Zastrocky, executive director of the Leadership Board for CIOs in Higher Education.

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How to establish an effective AI GRC framework

CIO Business Intelligence

Enterprise use of artificial intelligence comes with a wide range of risks in areas such as cybersecurity, data privacy, bias and discrimination, ethics, and regulatory compliance. As such, organizations that create a governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) framework specifically for AI are best positioned to get the most value out of the technology while minimizing its risks and ensuring responsible and ethical use.

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Agent Tooling: Connecting AI to Your Tools, Systems & Data

Speaker: Alex Salazar, CEO & Co-Founder @ Arcade | Nate Barbettini, Founding Engineer @ Arcade | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO @ Aggregage

There’s a lot of noise surrounding the ability of AI agents to connect to your tools, systems and data. But building an AI application into a reliable, secure workflow agent isn’t as simple as plugging in an API. As an engineering leader, it can be challenging to make sense of this evolving landscape, but agent tooling provides such high value that it’s critical we figure out how to move forward.

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Kyndryl and Microsoft expand partnership to streamline cloud operations

Network World

Kyndryl and Microsoft broadened their existing partnership to bring together Microsofts adaptive cloud approach and Kyndryl Distributed Cloud services to helpcustomers better develop, manage and secure hybrid cloud operations. Microsoft says its AI-infused adaptive cloud approach , which leverages Microsoft Azure Arc, Azure Local and Azure Cloud, enables customers to link distributed hybrid, multicloud, edge, and IoT resources under a single, secure application and data platform.

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Tariff uncertainty impacts IT services firms financial results

Forrester IT

IT services firms recently reported their Jan-Mar 2025 quarterly numbers. The results werent pretty. Most firms not only reported slower growth for the quarter but also lowered their forecast for the next financial year. I dug into the details of whats at play behind this mellow performance. Here is what I found.

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DOS Won’t Hunt: Breaking Bread -- New Tech for Legacy Ops

Information Week

Josh Mason, CTO of RecordPoint, and Katie Klein, vice president of marketing for Comcast Business, discuss paths forward for introducing new tech to legacy ops.

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Cuatro objetivos a perseguir al desarrollar habilidades en IA

CIO Business Intelligence

Tras descubrir los elevados costes que supone contratar expertos en inteligencia artificial (IA) externos a la organizacin, algunos CIO han impulsado nuevas formas de desarrollar habilidades internas , no solo dentro del departamento de TI, sino en toda la empresa. Muchos de los pioneros se centraron en cuatro mtodos distintos que ahora deberan tenerse en cuenta para los programas de formacin en IA de cualquier organizacin.

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Turn Your Contact Center Into a Profit Machine with AI

Every year, $75 billion is lost to bad customer service — and your business could be bleeding loyalty without realizing it. AI is rewriting the rules. Imagine instant answers, 24/7 self-service, faster resolutions, and skyrocketing satisfaction scores. Companies like Amazon are already cashing in, and the technology is easier than you think — plug, play, and profit.

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New England Patriots kick off network upgrade

Network World

On the field, the New England Patriots are hoping to bounce back from a couple of down years with a new head coach and a retooled roster. Off the field, the Kraft Group, which owns the team, has partnered with technology solutions provider NWN on a comprehensive stadium revamp that includes AI, facial recognition, virtual reality, wayfinding, digital wallets, IPTV and other cutting-edge technologies.

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It’s Time To Start Planning Your Postquantum Migration

Forrester IT

While we cannot determine when commercially available quantum computers (aka Q-Day) will be able to break asymmetric cryptography and algorithms, Forresters best estimate is that this will happen in 10 years. But it could also happen in five or 20 years.

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MIT Sloan CIO Symposium to Showcase 10 Startups Focused on CIO Needs

Information Week

The annual CIO conference, which InformationWeek will be attending live, will highlight early-stage companies focused on artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and data needs for enterprise IT.

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Data, agents and governance: Why enterprise architecture needs a new playbook

CIO Business Intelligence

In Data trust and the evolution of enterprise analytics in the age of AI , I addressed the foundational role of trusted data and why governance is so crucial to playing a role in establishing it. What I didnt explore was the background role of enterprise architecture (EA) in potentially being unintentionally complicit in the problem, despite its capacity to be a bigger part of the solution and, more importantly, how it can evolve to make a difference.

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How Companies Are Navigating Tariff Chaos with GEP’s AI-Powered Procurement Platform

Tariffs are no longer just policy noise. They’re driving real, bottom-line impact. One policy shift and your sourcing strategy is upside down. This bulletin cuts straight to the point. How Market-Leading Companies Are Navigating Tariff Chaos with GEP’s AI-Powered Procurement Platform breaks down how procurement teams are staying ahead of the chaos with real-time insights, smarter sourcing moves and AI-powered agility.

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Key takeaways from IBM Think partner event

Network World

The first week of May means flowers from April showers and that its time for IBM Think in Boston. The first day of the event has historically been the Partner Plus day, which is devoted to content for IBM partners, which include ISVs, technology partners and resellers. The 2025 keynote was kicked off by Kareem Yusuf, senior vice president of ecosystem, strategic partners and initiatives at IBM.

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The State Of Application Security, 2025: Yes, AI Just Made It Harder To Do This Right

Forrester IT

Our annual report on the state of application security is one of our favorites. We love digging into the data to see how priorities and adoption have changed. This year, the explosion of AI in applications and in-application development exacerbated existing trends and introduced new concerns. Here are some areas that got our attention.

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Ask a CIO Recruiter: Where Is the ‘I’ in the Modern CIO Role?

Information Week

Artificial intelligence is dramatically changing the CIO role, but adapting to next-gen technology in the business has been part of the job for years, says IT executive recruiter Tarun Inuganti.

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Critical infrastructure CIOs chart a vital new course for IT

CIO Business Intelligence

We are standing at a once-in-a-generation inflection point that will rival the most transformative infrastructure eras in US history. Fueled by the rise of AI, more than $7 trillion is being invested into the infrastructure needed to power the future, with companies projected to invest $5.2 trillion into data centers by 2030 to add 125 gigawatts of AI-related capacity.

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State of AI in Sales & Marketing 2025

AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.